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When John Wilkes Booth stepped into the presidential box that night at the Ford Theater and shot Abraham Lincoln, was he trying to avenge the South, as he is said to have shouted? Of course not. He was working out a basic Oedipal conflict, and his final words, "Mother, I died for my country," can be translated, "Mother, I killed my father because...
...massed in front of the River Plate Club. Shuffling and shivering in the cold of the South American winter, they waited neither for soccer nor for revolution, but for a court of law to convene. No ordinary courtroom could have held all the clamoring creditors of Alberto Abraham Natin, 55, a dapper, moonfaced real-estate wheeler-dealer who was charged with fraud and faced with bankruptcy. Before the crowd, seated at a stand draped in dark red felt, was a stern-faced federal judge. After months of delays and postponements, the time of decision had finally come...
Disney's final contribution to the fair is a modest attempt to revive Abraham Lincoln by rebuilding him out of steel, aluminum, gold, brass, soft epidermal plastic, air tubes, fluid tubes, pneumatic and hydraulic valves. Abe works a twelve-hour day at the Illinois pavilion. He does a show every twelve minutes, speaking without notes and repeating bits of six of his earlier speeches, reminding his countrymen that "right makes might...
...number of pejorative references to Jews (and Protestants)-and urged textbook writers to take greater care in discussing other faiths. The Lutheran World Federation's Commission on World Mission at a consultation in Denmark declared that anti-Semitism is "a demonic form of rebellion against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew, directed upon his people." And in Florence, European representatives of an international society for Christian-Jewish cooperation met to discuss their latest efforts to combat antiSemitism. There, Catholics and Protestants attended a service of prayer at the city...
...present at every lecture, to compile a complete set of notes, to hand in all papers on time. Some Strivers copy a friend's notes if they miss the first five minutes of a lecture. These are the Andrew Carnegies of Harvard, the Thomas Gradgrinds, yea, even the Abraham Lincolns...